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"Meeting Inspiring people, tackling global warming and ... learning to ride a bike"
It’s 7 o’clock in the morning and the alarm clock buzzes softly. Relax. Tailbacks and tooting car horns? I wouldn't know, as my apartment is only a stone’s throw from VITO. I arrive at 8.30 and there’s still enough time to say Hi! To everyone. Thanks to VITO’s flexdesk policy, I always have the opportunity to meet colleagues I haven’t seen before and it's interesting to find out what they are working on.
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“Connecting with people, drinking Italian coffee, watching football and tango dancing”
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All good things come in twos
Splitting yourself in two can be pretty intense sometimes, but it is also a learning experience that broadens your horizons. It has been daily fare for me since the summer of 2015. That was when I got the chance to combine my research position at VITO’s BAT Knowledge Centre with a facilitating role at Vlaanderen Circulair. VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research) invests in the development of a circular economy, and that is what my work at Vlaanderen Circulair is all about.
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Jef Bergmans, Board member at Young European Associated Researchers
YEAR brings together young researchers in Europe. Researcher Jef Bergmans represents VITO on the networking organisation’s board of directors.
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Khiem Trad, battery and energy storage researcher at EnergyVille
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Focus on 3D printing
Jasper Lefevere is the 3D printing specialist at VITO. What does an ordinary day look like for someone who – until last year – combined a job and top sport?
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Vera Meynen works as a materials researcher for the University of Antwerp. She is also connected to VITO through a strategic collaboration: “You can achieve much more by combining expertise.”
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Belgium beyond Chocolate: Innovation for a Happy and Sustainable Society
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VITO is expanding its Chinese commercial activities. Mao Debin is a central figure. He coordinates all of VITO’s projects in China.
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MoU Signing Ceremony between Thailand Research Fund and VITO to strengthen commitment towards the Circular Economy.
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By the end of this year, an innovative, easy and low-cost approach to screening for eye diseases - such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma - will be available to every European ophthalmologist. MONA.health, a spin-off of Flemish research and technology institute VITO and KU Leuven, has gained the confidence of Belgian investors to make this technique - which goes by the name of MONA and uses artificial intelligence (AI) - ready for commercialisation.
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It is and remains a hot topic, even during corona times when the collection of personal data proves crucial to avoid an outbreak. Citizens don't just want to be forced to share their data. Not only do they demand full transparency about how their data is used, they also want more control over it. Even before Covid-19 this concern was already shared in a joint initiative of the King Baudouin Foundation, VITO, the Flemish Patients Platform, Domus Medica and Zorgnet-Icuro.
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At the beginning of 2020, we already showed you how we use PROBA-V observations to map annual land cover changes. After sharing these promising annual change maps over the diverse African continent, the time has come to release these maps on a global scale, for the years 2015 through 2019.
From the familiar discrete map with 23 classes over the versatile 10 cover fraction layers to build customized land cover classes to the forest type map along with quality indicators and documentation, the annual 100 m land cover maps will support you in all your land cover and land cover change monitoring projects. Discover more about the global maps, the updated viewer, the validation and inspection and how to get started.
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ESA’s WorldCereal project aims to develop an efficient, agile and robust EO based system for timely global crop monitoring at field scale. This is a huge and unprecedented undertaking which can only be successful through a collaborative approach that engages with the various players within the international monitoring community and leverages the extensive existing efforts, experience and expertise within this community. To achieve this the WorldCereal team performed several interviews with key user and launched an agricultural data inventory. Time to share some first results!
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From the quality of water, through the paving of open spaces and the state of permanent grasslands to specific harvest forecasts: these are all developments 'on the ground' that can be monitored from space using remote sensing. The high time resolution of the new European satellite systems, the extensive digitisation of image processing and the achieved ease of use have prompted further incorporation of remote sensing applications in specific regional policy areas.
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The corona crisis has had an enormous impact on our economy. As many as 98% of regular businesses have experienced serious problems. This is evident from a survey (Dutch only) carried out by Circular Flanders and the VITO knowledge centre. Things are different with the circular companies. Two out of three circular companies (66%) state that they were not hindered by shortages during the corona crisis. Circular economy proves to be an effective vaccine during unexpected crises.
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With Risk&RACE, VITO has developed a ‘business game’ in which the players step into the roles of circular entrepreneurs – ideal for inspirational business workshops or a team-building event. International interest has since grown. The game is now even being translated into Chinese.
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“How do you feel about Belgium?” That's the question PhD student Max König was asked about two years ago. At that time, Max specialised in electrochemistry at the University of Stuttgart. His professor saw Max as the ideal candidate to continue his doctoral studies at VITO.
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It is fantastic to see how the deployment of people and resources is changing more and more rapidly these days. Walter Eevers, director of R&D at VITO, says.
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At the end of 2019, the European Commission set out its new sustainable growth strategy with the ‘Green Deal’. Then came the coronavirus crisis, which forced European policymakers to design an ambitious economic recovery policy called ‘Next Generation EU’. Broadly speaking, this programme is based on the same principles as the Green Deal, which makes it clear that the European member states are facing a ‘green recovery’. Europe’s ambition is to move forward to a sustainable future instead of a setback to the status quo from before the coronavirus crisis. To VITO, this all sounds very familiar. ‘Creating economic impact out of sustainability: it's in our DNA.’
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EVA's VeggieChallenge is the ideal opportunity for VITO to raise awareness about the environmental and climate impact of meat consumption and at the same time show employees how it can be done in a more plant-based way.
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3 700 participants and 200 expert speakers from 140 countries joined the fourth conference of the Global Sustainable Technology & Innovation Community. For the first time, the conference was organised as an online event by VITO and its international partners ACTS, FIOCRUZ, GIEC, GIST, IITD, NACETEM, and TERI. During the sessions live-streamed from the studios in Brussels and the online sessions, world-renowned speakers and sustainability thought leaders explored how to leverage technology transformation opportunities beyond the current pandemic.